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Growing with Grief Program Facilitator

2 weeks ago

York, Canada Yorktown Family Services Full time

**PRIMARY FUNCTION**:
The Growing With Grief Program Facilitator is a member of the clinical team that provides supportive grief and bereavement programming for clients of the Centre through the delivery of group activities.

Yorktown Family Services provides a comprehensive range of mental health services for children, youth and families who are experiencing serious emotional/social/behavioural difficulties along with several gender-based violence initiatives. Yorktown is committed to ensuring that all programs produce effective and positive outcomes for clients through evaluation, research and the incorporation of evidence-based services and practices whenever possible. We are committed to inclusiveness and diversity at all levels of the organization.

**Principal Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Program Planning, Delivery and Group Facilitation**
- Facilitates in person and/or virtual group programs such as Littles Groups, Middles Group, Youth Group and Family Event programs to bereaved children, youth, and their parents/caregivers
- Plan and design program curriculum, group session activities in collaboration with other staff and/or volunteers
- Co-create pre-program messaging and planning to caregivers and parents about the program.
- Debrief activities and program and process with team
- Plan and conduct family conversations where appropriate
- Prepare, construct, order, purchase program supplies as needed.
- Collect and incorporate feedback from participants in conjunction with R&E and clinical staff.
- Write reports, case notes, program summaries as needed
- Abide by all agency policies and procedures. Ensure proper health and safety protocols and procedures are followed at all times
- Promote, initiate and guide interactions that are characterized by equality and non-judgment
- Maintains an inclusive, compassionate environment for all participants
- Attend team meetings and professional development and supervision sessions as needed

**Specializations**:
**Nature Connection Mentoring**
- Takes active leadership role in nature connected mentoring/programming
- Collaborating with other facilitators and staff and volunteers on nature connection programming
- Consults on logistics of outdoor/indoor/virtual programming
- Set parameters of nature connection activities in consultation with the Centre
- Collaborate with Supervisor to ensure outdoor programming adheres to relevant health and safety guidelines

**Supervision Received**:
Supervision is provided by the Manager of Child, Youth, and Young Adult Mental Health Services; position requires ability to perform with mínimal supervision.

**Supervision Exercised**:
No direct reports. May monitor and collaborate with students and volunteers.
- Evening and weekend hours will be required
- Capacity to work outdoors, indoors and online
- CPR/First Aid certification required
- Vulnerable Sector Police Check required

**Qualifications & Skills**:
**Education**:
Minimum postsecondary degree in a related social services, social work, children and youth work, child life specialist, counselling psychology.

**Experience**:

- Previous experience and/or training with bereavement, grief, loss and trauma
- Minimum 3 years experience working with children and youth
- Minimum 3 years’ experience working in community-based services facilitating groups

**Skills**:

- Demonstrated knowledge, competency and recent experience using formal facilitation techniques/counselling, and experiential group processes and approaches from a client centered perspective.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with strong organizational, time and self-management skills. Proven active listening skills. Experience in developing and delivering child/youth and group programming.
- Ability to adapt to changes in circumstances (ex. weather, in person/virtual programming)
- Demonstrated cultural humility.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills that allow a high degree of ability to function independently and as a part of the team. Understanding of continuous quality improvement and evaluation principle

**Reports to: The Clinical Manager**

Yorktown Family Services is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity.

The Ontario Human Rights Code makes an exception for nepotism and anti-nepotism policies. Section 24(1)(d) of the Code specifically permits employers to grant or withhold employment or advancement in employment to someone who is the spouse, child or parent of the employee. All job applicants will be requested to disclose if any relative is a current employee of Yorktown Family Services. As per Yorktown’s Nepotism Policy 2.9, job applicants will be asked to disclose family members in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4 months

Pay: From $32.92 per hour

Expected hours: 21 per week